Bought a new to me and interesting looking beer at the grocery earlier and it was delightful. However, I was looking at the can and saw that it wasn't a typical pint can but was instead just shy of 15 ozs! What is this bullshit and who else is doing this?
I bought a four pack of Smithwick’s Red Ale a few months back and noticed the 14.9 ounce can size. Really odd as that equals 440.6456 milliliters. Never noticed that size can before.
440 ml is the most common UK beer can size. The cans of Old Peculier and Guinness 0 that I have are that size. A quick google brings up this article thats paywalled but the opening paragraph that is visible implies it's always been the standard https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/18/beer-can-440ml-measure
I do like how it has the total alcohol units on it. I think people would shudder at the number of standard drinks listed on their cans of 16 oz. double IPAs.
I wonder how they define "drinking units" because it must be different from here. Because according to the rethinking drinking calculator it gives 1.5 standard drinks, when that can lists 2.72 drinking units. Are standard drinks/drinking units smaller in Europe then?
Brewers in the UK who use their most standard size beer can. (alternative options include 330, 500 and 568ml) For a "sour beer" specialist company, you can console yourself with the thought that they seem to only put their stouts in 440ml cans while sticking to 330 and 375ml bottles for their low pH beer. Good for them. Generally speaking, when it comes to packaging and market pressures, I prefer volume games to health games.
Alcohol units = ABV% x Liquid Volume (ml) 6.2 x 0.440 = 2.728 All beers in the U.K. are required to show this on the container. The U.K. government/ NHS recommended maximum alcohol intake spread over at least three days is 14 units.
All beer containers sold in the U.K. are required to show the number of units including imports. The beers I have bought on continental Europe sometimes show this yet other times do not.
Their sour beers are bottled in very attractive little bottles with long slender necks. They're packaging overall has quite a nice aesthetic. and I guess I've never bought a canned british beer before. I'll have to check the Sam Smith cans next time I'm at the store and see what size they are
I wonder if it is the same can dimensions for both versions, but the brewery is reporting the actual amount of liquid, i.e. 60 ml less for nitro because the nitro widget is equal to 60 ml in size? Seems like a big widget though. (Anybody have a can of each size on hand to compare the physical dimensions?)
